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It's the start of a new year and with it the excitement of a new year of growing food.
I have been busy making a garden map and planting plan for my front and back gardens using last year's map.
Reading the notes I kept both at home and here on this site I am able to see what worked and what didn't and move things accordingly.
I am going to plant fewer cabbages and cover them with the finer insect mesh to keep the mango flower trash out of the developing heads.
Swiss chard bed is being moved from the back garden to the front.
Beans are going to be started on seedling trays and planted out with a foil wrapping around the stems.
More bed space is going to be devoted to spring onions.
I'll be consolidating the potatoes in one block as well as the zucchini and broccoli rather than have beds scattered.
No peas or snow peas this year at all.
I'm adding another 6mtrs of tomato trellis and I'm growing a new variety indeterminate Roma called Palmwoods on it.
Cutting back on the number of beef steak tomatoes and growing more Roma VF.
I need more sauce.
I'm shifting the chilli's and replanting them in the herb beds.
Doubling the size of potato patch.
I proved I could grow them.
Now I just need to grow more.
I'll still grow kale even though I hate the stuff because the guinea pigs and the chickens like it.
I need to buy and install irrigation systems and timers.
So that's the rough plan for my garden in 2020.
Have you made any plans for your garden for 2020?
I have been busy making a garden map and planting plan for my front and back gardens using last year's map.
Reading the notes I kept both at home and here on this site I am able to see what worked and what didn't and move things accordingly.
I am going to plant fewer cabbages and cover them with the finer insect mesh to keep the mango flower trash out of the developing heads.
Swiss chard bed is being moved from the back garden to the front.
Beans are going to be started on seedling trays and planted out with a foil wrapping around the stems.
More bed space is going to be devoted to spring onions.
I'll be consolidating the potatoes in one block as well as the zucchini and broccoli rather than have beds scattered.
No peas or snow peas this year at all.
I'm adding another 6mtrs of tomato trellis and I'm growing a new variety indeterminate Roma called Palmwoods on it.
Cutting back on the number of beef steak tomatoes and growing more Roma VF.
I need more sauce.
I'm shifting the chilli's and replanting them in the herb beds.
Doubling the size of potato patch.
I proved I could grow them.
Now I just need to grow more.
I'll still grow kale even though I hate the stuff because the guinea pigs and the chickens like it.
I need to buy and install irrigation systems and timers.
So that's the rough plan for my garden in 2020.
Have you made any plans for your garden for 2020?